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| author |   Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> | 2021-10-12 09:48:38 -0700 |
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| committer |   Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2021-10-18 18:35:36 -0700 |
| commit | 223f903e9c832699f4e5f422281a60756c1c6cfe (patch) | |
| tree | 3e6417cd43149323fe5c10bd25d234a82a6088dc /tools/testing/selftests/bpf/README.rst | |
| parent | bpf, mips: Fix comment on tail call count limiting (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-223f903e9c832699f4e5f422281a60756c1c6cfe.tar.xz linux-dev-223f903e9c832699f4e5f422281a60756c1c6cfe.zip | |
bpf: Rename BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG
Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.
After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).
This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
[2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
[3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199
Fixes: b5ea834dde6b ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd10363e ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec003 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/testing/selftests/bpf/README.rst')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/README.rst b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/README.rst index 554553acc6d9..5e287e445f75 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/README.rst +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/README.rst @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ __ https://reviews.llvm.org/D93563 btf_tag test and Clang version ============================== -The btf_tag selftest require LLVM support to recognize the btf_tag attribute. +The btf_tag selftest require LLVM support to recognize the btf_decl_tag attribute. It was introduced in `Clang 14`__. Without it, the btf_tag selftest will be skipped and you will observe: @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Without it, the btf_tag selftest will be skipped and you will observe: #<test_num> btf_tag:SKIP -__ https://reviews.llvm.org/D106614 +__ https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588 Clang dependencies for static linking tests =========================================== |